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Julian Anastasov wrote:
> You don't have a route in the form from "0/0 to DEST".
er, OK, why do I need one? The src_addr = RIP not 0/0
> Table RIP is used only from callers already bound to src RIP.
> One of the ways to autoselect source IP address when talking
> with destination host is to provide saddr=0.0.0.0 as
> routing call argument.
you're saying if I use src_addr=0/0 for routing then routing
will only route locally generated packets, and not stuff being
forwarded through the machine?
> Without such routes you have to bind()
> to some local IP before connect().
haven't done a lot of this I'm afraid and it was a while ago.
This happens in the application?
> BTW, defining preferred source in all routes is recommended.
thank you
Joe
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